New research highlights the brain’s default mode network (DMN) as a key driver of personal identity, integrating memories, beliefs, and emotions into a unique sense of self. Using fMRI scans, ...

There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.

Recent studies highlight the brain's default mode network (DMN) as a key player in overthinking, or rumination, which traps ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a distributed set of interconnected brain regions that has long been associated with internally oriented cognition, such as remembering the past, thinking about the ...

A study published June 25 in the American Journal of Psychiatry provides new insights into a long-standing question in psychiatric research: What is the underlying neurobiological mechanism of ...

Do you ever wonder why you come up with some of your best ideas in the shower? What about when you are just about to fall asleep? Or maybe when you are going out for a walk on your own? There is a ...

As you read this, in the background—or perhaps the foreground—is the wandering mind. This basal activity may be best represented in current neuroscience by the Default Mode Network (DMN). The DMN is ...

Expert Matt Zemon on how new therapies change the way our brains work. Has there been a psychedelic surge lately, or is it just me? Throughout my time in college, I swear I couldn't go one day without ...